Note 193 — Chapter XVIII · FORMER GLACIAL EPOCHS; GEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE OF.

Dr. Robert Brown, in a recent Memoir on the Miocene Beds of the Disco District (Trans. Geol. Soc. Glasg., vol. v., p. 55), has added considerably to our knowledge of these deposits. He describes the strata in detail, and gives lists of the plant and animal remains discovered by himself and others, and described by Professor Heer. Professor Nordenskjöld has likewise increased the data at our command (Transactions of the Swedish Academy, 1873); and still further evidence in favour of a warm climate having prevailed in Greenland during Miocene times has been obtained by the recent second German polar expedition.